Produced in 1966 in Japan for AHM, this impossibly rare, heavy and beautiful loco has been fully tested and upgraded by MRRHQ. You are unlikely to ever see another like it.

HISTORY:

"The 3400 Series was the last class of Pacifics bought by the Santa Fe and like so much of the railroad's stud, came from Baldwin. Similar to the USRA's Heavy Pacific in its tube and flue counts but fitted with a grate close in size to the USRA's Light Pacific and delivered with drivers close in size to the latter, these engines clearly reflected a relatively conservative approach on the part of head of motive power John Purcell. Worley (p.252) commented "...they were, truth to tell, quite ordinary post World War I Pacifics, just as average as such a locomotive could become." Forty were delivered as coal burners and were later converted to oil burning, while the last ten burned oil from the beginning. During the first fifteen or so years of service, the class saw few changes. A couple of engines were retrofitted with thermic syphons, Elesco feed water heaters were installed in many engines, and some were fitted with cast steel cylinders, but the only class-wide difference over the years was the trailing of a tender that carried 20,000 US gallons (75,700 litres) of water. The oil burners' tenders had 7,000 gallons of fuel oil (26,495 litres). Then all but six of the class were completely rebuilt beginning in 1936." (From: www.steamlocomotive.com)